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Would you serve a robust Rioja with the Rolling Stones or a mellow Merlot with Manilow? Customers at the Regency Tavern in Brighton will find that pairing wine to food is a simple task compared to the complexity of matching wines with classic rock and pop songs.

The Salutation at Sandwich celebrates it’s centenary this year. To commemorate the event Dominic Parker from The Salutation came to the Brewery to brew a special beer with me in the Pilot Brewery.I designed a recipe that would produce a traditional, old style, full, malty flavour.

Brewers, farmers and hop growers gathered to reflect on a challenging year of weather at Shepherd Neame’s annual Hop Blessing service in Faversham, Kent, on October 5. Head brewer Richard Frost, who joined the company in January and was celebrating his first Kentish hop harvest, said: “It has been a difficult year for growers with an exceptionally cold spring and a damp early summer affecting grow